Saturday, March 18, 2017

Saturday Good Reads

I’ve started
reading Rod Dreher’s The
Benedict Option, which is already generating significant controversy
and mostly along political lines. There have already been several reviews by
people who haven’t read it, and reviews by people who have. One of the best
reviews I’ve seen is by Karen Swallow Prior, and it’s linked below. And related is Peter Breinart's article at The Atlantic, "Breaking Faith." And another related
story: Patrick Deneen on how a generation lost its common culture.

“The Shack” is
now a movie, and I’m sure the producers are hoping for lots of controversy –
controversy sells. I haven’t seen it, but I did read the book several years
ago. I’ve already seen people on Facebook criticizing it and defending it, and
again sentiment tends to divide along political lines. (Is everything now political?)
I didn’t like the book. It was well written and engaging, and it is fiction,
but it is also a mishmash of all kinds of religions.

Jack Baumgartner
makes a walnut mantelpiece. A flower pot at Blenheim Palace turns out to be a
Roman coffin. Winston Churchill wrote a poem as an adult – the only one known
to exist. Nancy Parker Brummett rediscovers church basements (aka Fellowship
Halls). And if you ever wondered what being at the edge of a solar storm looked
like, someone has now filmed it.

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Professional writer exploring faith and culture, life and work; happily married to Janet, the love of my life; father of two grown sons. Award-winning speechwriter and communication consultant. I am an editor for TweetSpeak Poetry and the author of the novels "Dancing Priest," "A Light Shining," and "Dancing King," and the non-fiction book "Poetry at Work."